Reporter Arrested by Sec. Service, Jumped Rope Line Seeking Obama Autograph

Thursday, February 5th at 9:17PM EST

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A reporter apparently couldn’t resist the siren call of The One yesterday, so, like a star struck 15-year old at a Hannah Montana concert, he jumped the rope line separating the press from the president and ran up to him seeking Obama’s autograph.

Needless to say the Secret Service was not amused, interdicted the man’s Obammessiah signature seeking, and led him off to be investigated. The reporter was later seen gathering up his personal items in the White House press room and led from the premisses.

Gosh, it’s always great to hear of these types of stories of the hard-nosed press corps that is so cynical as to scoff at anyone that might be a tad awed by a mere politician isn’t it? We all know that reporters are way too nonchalant about the lure of The One to be all taken with his presence so, right? His autograph? Pshaw. That is absurd. Why, WHO would want the autograph of a politician? Heck, reporters see politicians everyday, so it’s just old hat, part of the job, uninteresting. Yep, good thing they are above hero worship!

But wait, this is The Obammessiah we are talking about. He’s no normal politician! He’s the man that can decide how much you are allowed to make as a head of industry. A man who can lay hands upon you and make all your tax cheating disappear. The man that can claim the moral high ground against lobbyists, yet hire over a dozen lobbyists anyway. He’s the man that can control even other nations with but the gesture of a finger, he’s so loved across the world.

No wonder the press acts like autograph hounds at a Hollywood premiere every time they see him. It’s a wonder that the press doesn’t mob him every time he appears! One wonders how many room keys and thrown underwear the White House cleaning staff finds on the floor every time the press and Obama leave the room?

The star struck press. I wonder how many of them that have had the good fortune to have shook The One’s hand told their significant others that they’ll never wash that hand again?

Anyway, I’m just glad that the press is so hard-bitten that the simple presence of The One doesn’t turn them into mush and that they are still tough enough to act like reporters. How about you?

(Photo of autograph seekers credit: Bettmann/CORBIS)

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"One wonders how many room keys and thrown underwear the White House cleaning staff finds on the floor every time the press and Obama leave the room?"

civil truth (Diary) Thursday, February 5th at 9:29PM EST (link)

Well, there was this interesting finding when the janitors swept up the trash from the Inauguration:

<img src=”http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g234/Andrightlyso/MichaelRamirezcartoon012609.gif”

The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis

http://www.gmsplace.com/

Here's another attempt to embed the photo

civil truth (Diary) Thursday, February 5th at 9:37PM EST (link)

<img src=”http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g234/Andrightlyso/MichaelRamirezcartoon012609.gif”

If this doesn’t work, then here’s an html link:

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/CartoonPopUp.aspx?id=317597956684383

http://www.gmsplace.com/

Friendly tip: a missing end tag /> is preventing your image display

6eorge Jetson (Diary) Thursday, February 5th at 10:20PM EST (link)

Try

<img src=”http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g234/Andrightlyso/MichaelRamirezcartoon012609.gif” /<

to see*

*The astute html-savvy reader will note that some trickeration/indirection was employed to display the html code above in the as would be literally entered by the posterrather than picture rendering that results immediately above. To accomplish this, I entered the html codes < and > for the less than and the greater than signs.

Third try to embed

civil truth (Diary) Thursday, February 5th at 11:48PM EST (link)

http://www.gmsplace.com/

You got the same result as I did, civil_truth

6eorge Jetson (Diary) Friday, February 6th at 1:11AM EST (link)

The preview feature sure would be of use here! And it would be nice to be able to view the raw post I typed in above to see if I had a typo. (I’m fishing here, but it may also have something to do w/ photobucket denying the request for the image from your browser through this webpage.) The image does appear when I enter the URL above directly as the address in another browser window.

Let’s try a couple of examples to see if it’s a photobucket issue

1) <img src=”http://weblogs.amny.com/news/politics/newyork/blog/bowl-thumb.jpg” />

renders as

2) <img src=”http://lonestartimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/blago.jpg” />

renders as

and the photobucket image we tried to display

3) <img src=”http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g234/Andrightlyso/MichaelRamirezcartoon012609.gif” />

renders as

I see you were able to retrieve the desired graphic

civil truth (Diary) Friday, February 6th at 1:58AM EST (link)

Several things I’m not clear on

1) In your example above, first you type the html source code, which remained intact, and then you produced the image, which contains the same url info as was in you source code. So one stayed in code form and the other embedded the image. Not sure what you typed differently between the two.

2) I’m not sure what you concluded about the browser windows, or whether somehow you used different browser windown in your example.

3) Nor is it clear why we both got the photobucket error message the first time but then you got the graphic the second time.

I’m going to do another test run to see if I can embed

http://www.gmsplace.com/

Very interesting outcome

civil truth (Diary) Friday, February 6th at 2:14AM EST (link)

I actually tried two embeds.

The first embed (using {} in place of the angle brackets) was of the form

{img src=”url” /} with a space between the close quote and the /}

The second embed was almost identical, of the form

{img src=”url”/} with no space between the close quote and the /}

The only difference between the two being the presence of absence of that space.

As we can see, the first image embedded but the second did not.

One final test, just to rule out problems with using the same image twice in the same comment:

with space

no space

http://www.gmsplace.com/

Yup, the space is required -nt-

civil truth (Diary) Friday, February 6th at 2:15AM EST (link)

http://www.gmsplace.com/

We must have had typos in our first attempts

6eorge Jetson (Diary) Friday, February 6th at 2:18AM EST (link)

so that takes care of 2) and 3)

As to question 1), I used a little trickery. To get the the text to appear to you as

<img src=”http://weblogs.amny.com/news/politics/newyork/blog/bowl-thumb.jpg” /> (trickery used)

I typed in

<img src=”http://weblogs.amny.com/news/politics/newyork/blog/bowl-thumb.jpg” /> (more trickery used)

See Note: your browser will substitute the noted special character for the code &name;

Some of our efforts evidently had typos

civil truth (Diary) Friday, February 6th at 2:28AM EST (link)

But the key issue is the necessity to put a space between the closing quote and the end code.

The failure to put in that space produced those photobucket failure messages, I think.

In any case, I think I’ve got a working system now.

http://www.gmsplace.com/

Geo Jetson

olsmithie (Diary) Thursday, February 5th at 11:53PM EST (link)

Do you have a tip on directly embedding a photo in a post?

Regards

use the HTML IMG Code.

phxg (Diary) Friday, February 6th at 12:03AM EST (link)

{img src=” use the url for the image here “}

Replace the brackets with “alligators”, you know the Shift . and ,

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. –Aristotle

You guys

Warner Todd Huston (Diary) Friday, February 6th at 3:04AM EST (link)

You guys are killin’ me with all this crap.

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olsmithie (Diary) Friday, February 6th at 9:07AM EST (link)

Been waiting for the help section with “all this crap” to be back up, but not there yet.
I know the coding folks are up to their eyeballs most of the time, so I won’t rush them, but thank them for the good job they do.

Now, back on my face…

Regards

not me

phxg (Diary) Friday, February 6th at 11:18AM EST (link)

next up is proper use of the DEL, U and I tags and their historical implementation into the W3C classification of proper HTML.

Next week will be rainbow lines, animated gifs and embedded music.

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. –Aristotle

I think I need tutorial on all these crap things.

Rod_Patrick (Diary) Friday, February 6th at 11:30AM EST (link)

ha ha ha!

Here's the full story, folks:

PD Thursday, February 5th at 10:03PM EST (link)

From politico.com:

An official familiar with the incident identified the journalist involved as Robert Feuereisen of Jewish World Review, a New York-based Web site which features primarily conservative Jewish writers….. The editor of the Web site, Binyamin Jolkovsky, confirmed to Politico that Feuereisen gathers information for the site and that he was the journalist who asked for Obama’s autograph Wednesday. Feuereisen’s 12-year-old son had bought an inaugural magazine of some sort for $8, and “his kid just drove him crazy,” said Jolkovsky.

http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0209/jumper_ided_b97c1bdd-1438-4b14-af0a-6ba149cab9cd.html

So blame this all on a father’s indulging of his 12-year-old son. Or for that matter, if you’re in an ironic mood, ascribe it somehow to the fact that this guy works for a conservative web site. But don’t try to squeeze this story into your pre-conceived stereotypes of the “star struck” press.

It really doesn't matter whom asked for the autograph....

JadedByPolitics (Diary) Thursday, February 5th at 10:24PM EST (link)

it shows how LOW media is PERIOD when we get them asking the President they are covering for an autograph. FIRE THE FOOL!

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Are you disagreeing that the Press is "star struck" by Obama? [nt]

Martin Knight (Diary) Friday, February 6th at 2:04AM EST (link)